Present on RHEL5 too yum-3.2.22-40.el5 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #769864 +++ Description of problem: SSIA. 'yum update' does not have this problem, unreachable repos with skip_if_unavailable=1 are skipped Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.29-22.el6.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a repo: [test] name=test baseurl=<url that is valid but returns 404> enabled=1 skip_if_unavailable=1 2. run yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo test makecache 3. Actual results: yum exits complaining that it can not download info for test repo: $BASEURL: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: test. Please verify its path and try again Expected results: yum skips repo Additional info: --- Additional comment from zpavlas on 2012-01-12 07:19:39 EST --- > Expected results: yum skips repo You have enabled only one repo, and Yum did skip that. 'skip_if_unavailable=1' does not prevent Yum from printing error messages (that's intended). Could you try '--enablerepo test --enablerepo other' too? This works upstream, but I don't have RHEL6 at hands. Thanks! --- Additional comment from djasa on 2012-01-12 07:35:40 EST --- (In reply to comment #1) > > Expected results: yum skips repo > > You have enabled only one repo, and Yum did skip that. 'skip_if_unavailable=1' > does not prevent Yum from printing error messages (that's intended). > This exactly does not work in RHEL: # yum makecache ; echo $? Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin [other repo metadata fetched] <repo_URL>: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: <repo>. Please verify its path and try again 1 yum should ignore the error and keep going through the rest of the repos, it exits with 1 instead.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 845581 ***